Up until Monday’s release of a brand new trailer, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that The New Mutants even existed. Disney’s acquisition of Fox left the project in a state of limbo, with many speculating that the studio’s final X-Men movie may never even see the light of day. Josh Boone’s horror-tinged comic book flick was constantly plagued by setbacks and was originally set to hit theaters in April 2018 before the Disney/Fox deal saw it pushed back by two full years.

Not only is The New Mutants finally being released in April though, but fans seemed genuinely impressed with how good the latest footage was, with interest in the mutant spinoff now starting to pick up once again. And with little direct competition at the box office during the movie’s opening weekend, if it turns out to be a success, then Disney and Marvel could have yet another big comic book franchise on their hands.

It’d previously been reported that Disney ordered all references to Fox’s X-Men movies to be removed from The New Mutants now that the vast majority of the characters are under the Marvel Studios banner, with an eye to making them a part of Marvel Cinematic Universe canon should it end up being a hit. And it seems that’s still the plan.

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